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L. E. TRUESDELL.

GAR EEATER AND LIGHTER.

No. 380,411 Patented Apr, 8, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcn LUGIUS E. TRUESDELL, OF BRISTOL, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR- OF ONE- HALF TO NASON W. CASS, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR HEATER AND LIGHTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 380,411, dated April 3, 1888.

Application filed April 9, 1887. Serial No. 234,244. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUoIUs E. TRUESDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bristol, in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car Heaters and Lighters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates more especially to oilstoves adapted for use as car-heaters, the object being to combine in arailway-car the lights with the heater or heaters and make a heater to serve both purposes, and also to provide means whereby the lights in said heater shall be extinguished in case of an accident to the moving train.

The invention consists in providing in an oil stove or heater an ordinary grenade and hammers or their equivalents which fall automatically upon and crush said grenade.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification,Figure 1 represents a partsectional elevation of an oil stove or heater having my improved attachments applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan View.

Similar reference-lettersindicate corresponding parts.

The base A will be placed upon a suitable stand in either end of a car in order to afford all the light possible. From this base containing the oil various wick-tubes B rise through a screen or perforated plate, 0, upon which may be fitted the cones D, covering the wicktubes.

At a convenient point upon the upper surface of the base or reservoir A a socket, a, is provided, into which the neck 6 of a grenade, E, may be placed and secured by a set-screw, a. In the drawings this socket a is located concentric with the circular base, and the perforated plate 0 has a central opening, a, through which a small portion of the top of the grenade protrudes. Two or more hammers, F, are suspended or hung to the sides of the drum X of the stove by means of a T- shaped arm, f, resting within slotted supports G. The handles f of these hammers are pivoted to and rendered vertically adjustable within their bearings H by reason of the vertical slots h, which are made long enough to allow the said handle to rise the height required to allow the T- shaped arms to free themselves from their supports G and fall upon the grenade E, (and instantly break it,) as shown by dotted lines in Fig. l and full lines, Fig. 2.

In case of accident and a car should roll down an embankment, the burning wicks would be extinguished even before said car had turned on its side.

Having described my invention,whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a car heater and lighter, the combination of a grenade, hammers for crushing the same, and slotted supports from which said hammers will automatically drop in case of collision or overturning of a car, all substantially for the purpose explained.

2. In an oil heater and lighter for cars, the combination of a grenade supported upon the base between and concentric with the various wicks, hammers having handles pivotally con nected to the drum of said heater, and slotted supports from which said hammers will automatically fall upon said grenade in case of collision or the tipping of a car, substantially for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereofl affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LUGIUS E. TRUESDELL.

Witnesses:

J. B. THURSTON, NATHANIEL E. MARTIN. 

